Entity

North Korea

The isolated, nuclear-armed state on the Korean Peninsula, ruled by the Kim family.

As of 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Seoul’s plan to send medical aid to North Korea is a ‘provocation’: Kim Yo Jong

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • A Chinese Network Laundered More Than $1 Billion for North Korea’s Lazarus Group, Says ZachXBT

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Takaichi asked Trump to broker Japan-North Korea summit

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • North Korea rejects Seoul’s land mine probe, warns against DMZ demining efforts

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving North Korea

What changed

  • Attention North Korea has 202 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for North Korea yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 8 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,479 documents · 114 publishers · 31% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.307: about 69% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside North Korea

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

South KoreaSeoulChinaUnited StatesNuclearJapanImmigrationKey Facts
  • South Korea · 972 shared documents
  • Seoul · 677 shared documents
  • China · 430 shared documents
  • United States · 383 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 364 shared documents
  • Japan · 360 shared documents
  • Immigration · 337 shared documents
  • Kim Jong-Un · 320 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Key Facts · 286 shared documents
  • Myung · 282 shared documents · no page of its own yet

North Korea has 202 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch North Korea to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of North Korea.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/bda195f4c767a586830296a3 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name north korea.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving North Korea

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Seoul’s plan to send medical aid to North Korea is a ‘provocation’: Kim Yo Jong

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • A Chinese Network Laundered More Than $1 Billion for North Korea’s Lazarus Group, Says ZachXBT

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Takaichi asked Trump to broker Japan-North Korea summit

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • North Korea rejects Seoul’s land mine probe, warns against DMZ demining efforts

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Korea blames North Korean mines for border blast injuries and demands apology

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Ukraine believes Russia shared jet-drone technology with North Korea, says Zelenskiy

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea warns of stronger action toward South Korea over mine blast accusations

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea says hypersonic missile flew 1,000km, exceeding Seoul, Tokyo reports

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea launches ballistic missile after Seoul demands apology over wounded soldiers

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Chainalysis Links $387M Bitget Theft To North Korea, Traces XRP To Bitcoin

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea fires intermediate-range missile, claiming evasive flight and AI features

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from North Korea

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North Korea

Entity.

Evidence
1,479 documents · 114 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 9 Oct 2026
Measured
31% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 Oct 2026
22 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names North Korea, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about North Korea

Markets whose question is about North Korea or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to North Korea and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 9 Oct 2026.